“The University of Southern California is testing a giant 3D printer that could be used to build a whole house in under 24 hours. Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis has designed the giant robot that replaces construction workers with a nozzle on a gantry, this squirts out concrete and can quickly build a home according to a computer pattern. The buildings are ‘designed on computer and built by a computer’. Contour Crafting hopes to generate ‘entire neighbourhoods built at a fraction of the cost, in a fraction of the time, far more safely, and with architectural flexibility that is unprecedented.’ The Contour Crafting solution also produces much stronger structures than traditional building methods.”
http://innovation.uk.msn.com/design/the-3d-printer-that-can-build-a-house-in-24-hours